Alain Joule

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Alain Joule (* 1950 in Marseille ) is a French composer and jazz percussionist.

Live and act

Joule studied at the Marseille Conservatory and began his musical career as a drummer in orchestras and rhythm and blues bands. He played with the guitarist Joseph Dejean and directed the Le Vivant Quartet , which recorded "Ce qu'a vu le Cers" by Luc Ferrari in 1979 . In the mid-1990s he worked in a trio of Barre Phillips with Michel Doneda (album no pieces on Emouvance).

As a composer, Joule created not only instrumental and musical theater works, but also multimedia works including dance, painting and sculpture such as Le Bruit des Temps (in collaboration with Bernard Noël , Barre Phillips, Bertrand Vivin and Annick Nozati ). For the choreographer Jean Rochereau he wrote Histoire d'Elze and Porte-fenêtre , for the dancer and choreographer Geneviève Choukroun Messe bleue and Les portes du vent .

Compositions

  • Son sur son pour orchester soliste, danseurs, architectes et mimes Performance by the Orchester Expérimental de Montpellier , 1983
  • Le Miroir à Musique for five voices and four instruments, 1983
  • Ricochet sur la lune , symphonic piece for clarinet and orchestra, 1983
  • Sens contre sens , chamber music, 1987
  • Cordes à corps pour guitare seule , 1987
  • Le deuxième miroir for three voices and four instruments, 1987
  • Le Bruit des Temps , 1990
  • Le Chameau d'Ispahan , musical staging for saxophone and percussion for a painting exhibition, 1992
  • Cabaret Celestina for the Roy Hart Théâtre
  • Déméter , chamber opera
  • Création par correspondance for four actors and four musicians, 1993
  • La ville entrechoquée for prepared piano, percussion and scenography (with Stéphan Oliva and Michel Mathieu ), 1995
  • Opération Médée , for choir and loudspeaker after Medea by Euripides , 1996
  • Le quintalogue , 2000

Sound installations

  • Cubes et pyramides , Béziers 1994
  • Chroniques d'oiseaux , Avignon 1995
  • La ville entrechoquée , École d'art Avignon and Villa de Noaille Hyères 1996
  • Equations poétiques , Marseille 1998
  • Maquettes cosmiques , Avignon 1997, Albi and Auckland 1998
  • Horloges cosmiques , 1998-2001
  • résonances cosmiques / manca , 2001
  • res futurae , 2004
  • Mémoires minérales , 2006
  • Boucliers de vent / prelude , 2006
  • Promenade de mémoire , 2006

Discography

  • Luc Ferrari, Ce qu'a vu le Cers , 1979
  • Barre Phillips, Aquarian Rain , 1991
  • No pieces , with Michel Doneda and Barre Phillips, 1992
  • Le Chameau d'Ispahan with Michel Doneda and Laure Florentin , 1994
  • M'uoaz , with Michel Doneda, Tetsu Saitoh and Antonella Talamonti , 1997
  • Orchestrations cosmiques , 1999/2000

Books

  • Le Chameau d'Ispahan based on the work of the Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov , 1992
  • Chroniques d'oiseaux , musical miniatures and poetic commentaries, 1997
  • Le mot à mort, ensemble de textes poétiques ... 1999–2000

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personal data
SURNAME Joule, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille